Dumka Maoist Attack

• After Dumka Naxal attack, questions on police preparedness

  Less than 24 hours after a lethal Maoist strike claimed the lives of three polling officials and five policemen in Jharkhand's Dumka district on Thursday evening, questions are being asked whether the state administration had lowered its guard.

• 8 of polling team killed in Maoist attack: Jharkhand top cop admits mistakes

  The Jharkhand police have admitted to "mistakes" after three polling officials and five policemen were killed on Thursday evening when the bus they were traveling in hit a landmine allegedly planted by the Maoists in the Dumka district.

• Eight of polling team, including 5 cops, killed in Maoist attack in Jharkhand

  Three polling officials and five policemen were killed in Jharkhand on Thursday evening when the bus they were traveling in hit a landmine allegedly planted by the Maoists in the Dumka district.

• Eight polling officials, including 5 policemen, killed in Maoist attack in Dumka

  Eight members of a polling team, including five jawans of the Jharkhand police, were killed this evening when a bus carrying them was blown off after hitting a landmine allegedly planted by the Maoists near Asnajore village in the Shikaripara police station of Jharkhand's Dumka district.

• One Maoist arrested in Jharkhand SP attack case

  A Maoist, who is on bail, was arrested from Pokharia village in Dumka district in connection with the fatal attack on Pakur Superintendent of Police Amarjit Balihar and others at Kathikund on July 2.

• Jharkhand Maoist attack: Were intelligence warnings ignored?

  Could Amarjit Balihari, Superintendent of Police, Pakur, and his six men have escaped the Maoist ambush yesterday at Kathikunda on the Dumka-Pakur border in Jharkhand?

• Body of Jharkhand top cop killed in Naxal attack brought home

  The body of 53-year-old Amarjit Balihar was brought to Ranchi, his hometown, this morning. Mr Balihar, an IPS officer, was killed in a Maoist ambush yesterday in Dumka district of Jharkhand near the border with West Bengal.

• Jharkhand Police to review intelligence network after Maoist attack

  Caught off guard by the brutal Maoist attack on Tuesday that killed six policemen, including Pakur SP Amarjeet Balihar, Jharkhand Police says it will review its intelligence network.

• Senior cop among six killed in major Naxal attack in Jharkhand

  Six policemen, including a Superintendent of Police, have been killed in an ambush by Maoists in Dumka, Jharkhand.

• Jharkhand: Cop killed in encounter with Naxals

  A police officer was today killed and two policemen were injured in a fierce encounter with Maoists in the hilly jungles of Jama block in Jharkhand's Dumka district."The officer-in-charge of Jama police station Satanand Singh died on the spot when a bullet hit him in the head during the gunfight," Deputy Inspector General of Police B K Pandey told ...